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Debra McCaffrey

Deb is a physical chemistry graduate student in the Saykally group at UC Berkeley. She looks at how ions behave at the graphene/water and hydrocarbon/water interfaces using second harmonic generation spectroscopy. In her spare time, she likes to play handbells, knit, and play video games.

Though 87% of scientists believe that human activity causes climate change, only half of the general population shares this view, according to a well-known Pew Research Center report. On the issue of GMO food safety,

An official announcement from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry that came out on December 30, 2015 still has scientists buzzing with excitement. The seventh row of the periodic table is officially complete,

Though the evidence shows the United States economy has been getting stronger, we still hear the same dire news: wages have been stagnant since the 1970s, 14 percent of the labor force is unemployed or

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